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Autobiographies (Paperback)
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Kathleen Raine was one of the most eminent literary figures of the
twentieth century-as poet, scholar, and editor. During her long and
distinguished career she knew many of the leading writers and
artists among her contemporaries. However, Autobiographies is an
illuminating attempt to chart the inner course of her life. It
opens with a magical evocation of childhood in a remote
Northumbrian hamlet during the First World War. The close-knit
community she knew, while growing up far from the modern world, was
to remain an enduring image for her of Paradise, lost and ever
after sought for. While studying science at Cambridge, as a
contemporary of William Empson, Humphrey Jennings, Jacob Bronowski,
and Malcolm Lowry, she moved uneasily in the prevailing atmosphere
of positivist science and socialist excitement, before finding the
path of her spiritual quest lay in a very different direction. In
the final part of her story she describes her friendship with Elias
Canetti, and her important and intense relationship with Gavin
Maxwell. Kathleen Raine's reputation has never stood higher than at
present, and this collected edition of her autobiographies, as well
as being the perfect introduction to her workas a whole, takes its
place as an illustrious successor to the autobiographies of W. B.
Yeats and Edwin Muir.
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